Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 06/2022
New partnership set to electrify inland waterway transport
Electric Eel | Andorra-based battery manufacturer, AYK Energy, and Lithuanian ship designer, Western Baltic Engineering (WBE), have struck a new partnership to develop an electric pusher tug for inland waterway operation. The 26m-long Electric Eel design will be powered by three DNV-approved AYK batteries. It will have a range of 300km, a pushing capacity of 2,000 tonnes, and a maximum speed of more than 20km/h at 85% engine load. Eglė Mikalauskienė, WBE’s head of Sales and Marketing, declared that the partnership will supercharge the company’s drive to introduce the electric pusher tug to Europe’s inland waterways and other major markets including the US....